Check out the new look at the West U Examiner, which debuted this past week. It's much slicker, with user comments in stories, and apparently will have more frequent updates - see, for example, this story about the ongoing Kirby trees saga. Their opinion page is now the home for the print stylings of KTRK reporter/blogger Miya Shay, who'll be filling in for Chris Bell while he runs for State Senate. Here's Miya's take on CD07 challenger Michael Skelly. Nice to see that her voice for blogging carries over to the more traditional format.

(By the way, if you haven't seen the video Miya got of President Bush's speech at the Pete Olson fundraiser, I don't know how you've managed to miss it. Go check it out, it's for stuff like this that the word "flabbergasted" was coined.)